FootballScoop is proud to announce that Will Myers (Georgia) is the 2025 FootballScoop Player Personnel Director of the Year, presented by Teamworks and voted to the honor by prior winners
The pay was unmatched.
Check that.
There was no pay; no need to match.
Eight years ago, toiling as an undergraduate student at the University of South Carolina, Will Myers faced quite the conundrum.
His capstone project required an applicable sports science component; his career ambition was to work in college football personnel.
Naturally, Myers did both. For free.
There was the unpaid internship in the South Carolina Gamecocks weight room in the middle of Will Muschamp’s South Carolina reign.
Also, there was the unpaid internship in then-budding personnel star Matt Lindsey’s Gamecocks operations.
The hours were consecutive. In the Gamecocks weight room, Myers worked five days a week from 3 a.m. to noon; with a short walk, Myers shifted into the recruiting department from noon to 7 p.m.
Sixteen hours a day; zero dollars per hour.
“I regret nothing about it,” Myers is known to say on repeat. “Lucky to do it all.”
He’s worked at big-boy programs – South Carolina, Ole Miss and LSU – before emerging as the invisible man with the indelible impact on Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs program.
“He’s a tireless worker,” says newly minted Arkansas General Manager Gaizka Crowley, a FootballScoop G.M. of the Year nominee who once discussed a job opportunity with Myers when Crowley ran the show at UNLV. “He doesn’t get a ton of credit for how well he’s done there, with Coach Smart, he’s kind of in the shadows. But, he’s super-detailed and a tireless worker.
“He’s got that SEC experience, but he also knows that Group of Five life. He’s just a relentless worker and super-humble and a guy I feel like deserves this award. Other people around the country in that job might get talked about more than he does, but he does as good a job as anybody in the country in a super-high-pressure place with that Georgia program.”
Myers, shunning attention and pointing to Smart's culture and genius, likes to tell people that Louisiana Cajuns coach Michael Desormeaux “restored my career and my faith in football.”
His mentors also include Muschamp, who brought Myers to Georgia, as well as Cooper Petagna, a former college football executive who now works for CBS Sports, and Mike Collins, the prep head coach of Myers’s high school alma mater, Neville (Louisiana).
Since Myers arrived at Georgia three seasons ago, the LSU and South Carolina alum has helped assemble rosters for Smart that have included the nation’s No. 1-ranked signing class in 2024 per 247Sports, followed by No. 2 in ‘25 and No. 5 this year.
The Bulldogs have won 36 games in that span, were seeded No. 2 in the 2025 College Football Playoff and landed the third seed in this year’s CFP.
All in a day’s work for Myers, FootballScoop’s Director of Player Personnel of the Year for 2025 presented by Teamworks.
The FootballScoop Coaches of the Year awards presented by Teamworks are the only set of awards that recognize the most outstanding position coaches and support staff members in college football. The finalists (Justin Anderson [BYU], Tyler Dean [Oregon], Justin Speros [Virginia] and Myers) were selected based off of nominations by coaches, athletic directors, and athletic department personnel. The prior winners selected this year's winner.
Previous winners of the Player Personnel Director of the Year award are Tyler Siskey (Alabama, 2013), Mark Pantoni (Ohio State, 2014), Austin Thomas (LSU, 2015), Jody Wright (Alabama, 2016), Marshall Malchow (Georgia, 2017), Matt Lindsey (South Carolina, 2018), Annie Hanson and Drew Hill (Oklahoma, 2019), Lee Willbanks (Indiana, 2020), Zach Grant (Western Kentucky, 2021), Will Redmond (LSU, 2022), Darrick Yray (Florida State, 2023), and Chad Bowden (Notre Dame, 2024).
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